How would YOU have done as the newest animorph?

[wotw2112]

Jake, Marco, Cassie, Rachel, Tobias, Ax, and YOU!

If it had been you instead of David do you think you would have done any better?

Consider:
Your life was ruined
Your house was destroyed
Your entire family was under Yeerk control
You were now fighting an intergalactic war and commiting all kinds of atrocities
You are an outsider in the only group you can ever be a part of again

And it was (arguably) YOUR own fault

Could you handle it?

[Yorick Brown]

I'd be depressed but I'd accept my fate and join the Animorphs to get my parents' freedom back while enjoying the power to morph in the meantime.

David was so dumb and selfish.

[Chad32]

I'd be scared, having to rely on the help of strangers to get my parents back and try to help the world. I don't know if I would join them, but I wouldn't betray them if I could help it.

[Gaz]

I certainly wouldn't take the road David did. That's just not in my personality to betray others.

Initially I know I'd be crushed and hard to deal with for a few days. Trying to accept the fact that I've been tossed into a fight I had originally known nothing about and suddenly I've got to learn everything in a short time if I want to live. It would be hard not having the proper time to grieve for my former life.

Like to believe I'd adapt eventually. Maybe not entirely, but enough to get by. I know after a bit I'd want to be accepted by the group. After all, they'd be the only friends I had.

[WildAtHeart]

i think i would join them.  although i would probably disappear for a few days just to give myself to accept everything

[Phoenix004]

I don't think anyone can imagine how they'd truly react, but I'll give it a try.

I know I'd be devastated by the loss of my family, not to mention my entire life as I knew it. I'd probably blame myself even if it wasn't my fault. I'd be scared of the Yeerks obviously, but I'd like to think that I;d be able to live on and help defeat them. My family might be slaves of the Yeerks, but as long as they lived I would have hope of saving them (much like Jake lived in hope of saving Tom) and would draw strength from that.

[morfowt]

Your life was ruined
Your house was destroyed
Your entire family was under Yeerk control
You were now fighting an intergalactic war and commiting all kinds of atrocities
You are an outsider in the only group you can ever be a part of again

And it was (arguably) YOUR own fault

Could you handle it?

I don't have much of a life anyway
I change houses so much (cuz of moving), I wouldn't really miss my house.
my family under yeerk control, I wouldn't do anything reckless to try and save them. I'd just wait until the right time.
wouldn't really react that much until the killing really started. once that happened, I'd probably want to quit being an animorph.
I was always kind of a loner anyway
I try to not think of any guilt I have anyway
I don't know. I wouldn't try to break into the hotel or kill the seagull, like David did, but selling out to the yeerks because I want to live, that's a definite possibility.

Final result, I'd be cool with them until we went into a real battle. If we easily win, I'd quit because of the horror I saw (blood and death and stuff like that). If we're cornered, I'd probably give myself up like David did. So I'd only last until my first real battle.

[Nateosaurus]

I'd be the complete opposite to David.. I'd be dedicated to fighting the Yeerks so I could try to save my family and all that jazz.

[XenomorphLV426]

So you say, when your life isn't actually on the line.

[musicman88]

I would probably be a bad Animorph, especially when everyone else throws me straight into the whole thing.  I would probably abuse my morphing powers a bit and I would be the first one to run away from a battle.

[Touquie]

I'm sure that I would be depressed for a long time.  I wouldn't want to be around people I didn't really know that well so I would push them away for a few days.  After grieving for a while I'd probably realize they were helping me and join them.

[Cloak]

I'd like to think I would be a good Animorph. . . . Though my overly-serious nature could weird out the others.  I also have a habit of internalizing all my emotions, an anger problem, and a stubborn personality; so those may be a problem.

I know that I would hate myself when I was forced to kill.  But, as I mentioned before, I'd internalize that feeling and not tell anyone.

In my opinion, David eventually became what he was -- a rat.

[Phoenix004]

So you say, when your life isn't actually on the line.

As I already said, you can't really imagine what you'd do in that situation, but this is just a friendly discussion.

[Qwerty the Charliecorn]

I really don't know what would have happened. I am thoroughly convinced that in any of the Animorphs positions, I would have lost my mind. But right now, we're talking about being in David's position.

I think I'd be too afraid, at first, to do anything but listen to the Animorphs and do what they said. Over time, the killing and the war would drive me to do something I know I would regret later on (like intentionally becoming a nothlit, or trying to take matters into my own hands by going on a crazy rescue mission for my parents.)

[Whammy]

-I'm with morfort on the whole "I didn't have much of a life to begin with" thing. Well, I guess I would still be depressed to some degree, but at the same time I've always been an optimist/hard to depress so maybe a total collapse of a part of my life philosophy? That would probably send me spiralling into some sort of nihilistic mood. Add that with my already existing Machiavellian tendencies...

-If my life was ruined and my parent's captured I'd probably have more important things to worry about than my house being destroyed. Still, I guess I'd miss everything that I had. But still, I would hopefully be more concerned about everything else that was going on than my house.

-Well, theres one advantage of my mom living in another state; it would be much harder for them to get them all at once. However, I'll admit that I'd work with the Animorphs to get them back and then "Bye-bye Animorphs. Have a nice life." Of course then there would probably be some big fight that leads me to having to work with them to save the world. Or guilt comes in or something else sends me back to fighting with them.

-I'm not going to answer that one because I cannot honestly think of how I'd react to fighting an intergalactic war. In my mind right now I'd probably just not try and moralize it past the "your the invaders and we are trying to get rid of you" thing, but once I was actually in there I'm sure something would change.

-If they are part of the only group I can ever be in again, well, I better hope I'm not an outsider for long. Though I would probably get into some arguments with them (hopefully they can understand I'd be a bit, well, testy).

...wonder if Tobias knows any nice branches I could live on? Being a nothlit would be my last resort.

Overall I don't think I'd go David's way, but I probably wouldn't be that effective of an Animorph so who knows what would happen.